Monday, September 8, 2008

IN SEARCH OF THE LAST ROMANTIC




While I read your poem
It suddenly came to me. To think
of the man who went away.


He who gave up the last
seat. He who clung
to the trisikad* just to
give my butt a space.

He who sent the letter
with the sweet tounge. Who plucked
the stars and the flowers of
Kangkong* and offered them to me.

He who did not call me
a whore. Reminisced
why i have become
a vendor of my
abused rice cake.

(Where is he?
because this heart
long stained. This heart needs
a savior against the cruel time.)

*trisikad is a Philippine public vehicle that is a contraption of a bicycle and a side car usually seen in the countryside, carrying 5 or more passengers, literally hanging on it.
*kangkong is a cheap Philippine vegetable with a white flower that does not last long in a flower vase; Philippine water spinach.

The painting "Faces of Maria" is by the author